Łukasz Zoll and his twin brother Michał Zoll will commerce in a Porsche 924 for a Can-Am Maverick X3 in 2025 once they change from the Dakar Basic to the principle Dakar Rally. They’ll race within the SSV class with help from South Racing Can-Am, with Łukasz as driver and Michał being his navigator.
The twins raced the Dakar for the primary time in January, the place they entered the Basic in a Porsche 924 Turbo from P-Rally. They completed fifty-fourth total and third within the H2.A category after a tumultuous race by which they handled a rash {of electrical} issues. Their team-mate Tomasz Staniszewski was additionally affected by automobile gremlins as he completed forty-third.
Whereas P-Rally has since upgraded their Porsche for the 2025 Basic, the Zolls opted to modify to the Rally. Whereas the Basic is a regularity race, the Dakar Rally makes use of a conventional time-speed format. In mid-September, the brothers went to Morocco to check the Maverick as a part of DUUST Rally Group’s Rally Coaching Middle.
“Contributors of the Dakar Rally will be divided into two teams: those that by no means wish to return, and people who can’t neglect it and take into consideration nothing else however beginning within the subsequent editions of this desert marathon,” wrote Łukasz. “We belong to the second group, the one that may do every thing to have the ability to return to the Dakar beginning line!
“Even throughout this 12 months’s version, we had been already pondering forward and dreaming about beginning subsequent 12 months within the hardest race on the planet! Goals are supposed to be fulfilled! So, we’re formally saying that in January 2025, we will probably be at the beginning line of the Dakar Rally!”
The 2 hail from a household with a deep rally background. Their grandfather Jacek Zoll was a Polish rally driver within the Nineteen Sixties whereas father Marcin Zoll received nationwide championships within the self-discipline.
Łukasz additionally dabbled in rallying and ultimately made his title in rallycross, competing in collection just like the FIA’s CEZ Rallycross Championship in addition to the Polish division. When not being a classic automobile collector, Michał primarily races bikes, and isn’t any stranger to cross-country rally earlier than Dakar as he has entered races just like the Baja Poland.
The 2025 Dakar Rally takes place on 3–17 January.
